What a charming couple!
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
一对
couple; pair
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
couple; pair
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 一对 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一对 appears in 11 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
You need two to make a pair.
The owner of this house has two twins.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 一对.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一对.
Directly before
- 的一对4
- 了一对1
- 是一对1
- 凑成一对1
- 为什么一对1
Directly after
- 一对双胞胎2
- 一对年轻1
- 一对合法1
- 一对夫妻1
- 一对夫妇1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 一对
What does 一对 mean in Chinese?
一对 (yīduì) means couple; pair.
How do you pronounce 一对?
一对 is pronounced yīduì.
Is 一对 an HSK word?
一对 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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